Uncle Billy was a former slave who enjoys singing and remember most songs from his slave days. In the recording he sang a variety of different songs. It's one thing to read the conversation but with the recording you can hear the meaning behind their voice and it's better and better to understand because you can hear the emotion behind their voice if they're sad or happy and you can tell many things about it from hearing their voice rather than reading it and it's just better that way to hear it. I found out he likes to sing and he used to cook on boats. He also would tote salt where he would get salt for his old master and take it from a boat to a warehouse. They had to tote it up the bank and to the warehouse.
Starting off with songs, he sang a total of three songs and had hummed a couple tunes and thought to sing of another song but didn't continue due to thinking it was the wrong lyrics. In the first recording (1out of 2) he sang the songs Blow Cornie Blow, Ju Rawsy Row, Row, Don't Come To My House, and Walk Dooley. In the second recording (2 out of 2) he sang no songs but talked about when slavery was over.
Going onto what else I learned, Uncle Billy McCrea had more than just a few children. Most people have one, two, three, four, five, maybe even six children. But other than TV shows, I have never known or read anyone to have thirty-six children. That's right,Uncle Billy had thirty-six children! and eighteen of them were boys. Holy cow!
Listening to the recording, it affected me to see all the things they had to put up with. Just thinking, how could this affect others. How will technology affect future generations?
Current technology will only increase to be more technical and most things will most likely be more device-like when my grandchildren come along, but if this day's current technology will affect them, how will that be, you ask? Probably they would be rude, first of all, I'm not even old enough and am still a child myself and can tell already we're in trouble. My grandchildren will be nice though, better than me hopefully. I will teach them better and although I will understand what it's like to be a child and want to have technology and the latest devices, I will hopefully teach them to be less greedy and think better than that, because they will know better.
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